Exactly! Non-Tea Party Republicans were craven for kowtowing to their own radical fringe. The shutdown literally cost our country billions of dollars, hurt our financial credibility in the world, hurt countless regular Americans in many ways, and accomplished nothing good but assuaging the circus ego of Tea Party types.
and yet when the govt was shut down in the past by say Tip O'Neil dems/libs didn't say boo.
The prez made it very clear he isn't willing to compromise in the least, at any time, or any place with the Republicans, so a more radical arm of the party took advantage of one of the few situations they could in an attempt to gain some leverage, and unfortunately the rest of the party didn't come together and form a strategy and instead we had more of this fractured approach with the hard line vs. the old guard.
To answer your question above (which wasn't directed at me but I will humor it anyway) I have absolutely no issues Cruz having done what he did and govt shutting down, the govt employees are getting back pay, sucks for those who are contractors. Things move on, and at least for me and those I know there was really no impact whatsoever...just like sequester for most beyond the media headlines it was big meh.
As for the loss of other monies, we flush so much away on entitlement programs and just the wastefulness of govt I find it rather funny you libs are getting bent over a paltry sum when compared to the larger picture.
What I am more upset with is the lengths the left went to bar people from national parks and other political stunts to make their point, the amount of effort, energy, and money put towards such shenanigans is ridiculous...but not surprising as they are the party of blame everyone else.